CharlotteL:@LizzyB I am not romantic. I never was. I ask only for a comfortable home.

CharlotteL:@LizzyB you will tweet to me, won't you? I don't think I could bear going if you didn't tweet to me.

LizzyB:@CharlotteL Of course. I’ll even visit you on Facebook but promise me I won’t have to read Mr Collins’ blog.

Darcy:@Bingley: I think it’s time we both quit Twitter for a while and went back to blogging. These tweeple are beneath us.

Bingley:@Darcy But, but... Oh if you insist. You are the most capital fellow I have ever met, after all. #Iamapatsy

Wickham:I just joined a twibe: LittleLadyLovers

JaneB:@LizzyB Bingley has left Twitter. I must summon the fortitude to overcome this.

LizzyB:@JaneB I'm sure he loves you still. Why don’t you get a blogger account so you can keep in touch? Our aunt & uncle will let you guest post.

JaneB:You may be right, @Lizzy. I will comment as demurely as I am able to.

Darcy:DM to @LizzyBIn vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire & love you.

[series of DMs between LizzyB and Darcy]

LizzyB:WTF?

LizzyB:Can you deny that you made Bingley quit Twitter thus destroying my sister’s chance for happiness?

Darcy:I cannot. I even deleted all her comments on his blog so he wouldn’t know she was reading. Marry me anyway?

LizzyB:And don’t even get me started on your offenses to poor Wickham.

Darcy:Wickham? Oh yes, poor downtrodden Wickham. #eyeroll

LizzyB:Gah! You are so haughty!

Darcy:And you are such a hotty.

LizzyB:Ugh. You are the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed upon to marry. kaithksbye

[Msg to LizzyB from Twitter: Are you sure you want to block Darcy? BLOCK]

EMAIL FROM DARCY TO LIZZYB:You have blocked me on Twitter which leaves me no other recourse than to email you an honest account of my dealings with Mr Wickham. In short, he is a pedi-perv who tried to bone my sister when she was but 15. He had hoped to marry her for her fortune, but I stopped him. So there.

LizzieB:@Darcy I must thank you for your kindness to my poor sister. Buying out that open source asshat of a husband must have cost you a fortune.

Darcy:@LizzieB: I did it all for you. Please tell me you no longer think I’m a twit.

LizzieB:@Darcy: Oh never a twit. I once thought you were a twat but all is forgotten.

Darcy:@LizzyB My feelings and intentions have not changed. One tweet from you will silence me forever.

LizzieB:@Darcy I heart you. Truly.

Darcy:@LizzieB YAY! I’ll tweet your father to ask for your hand.

LizzieB: @Darcy: Oh you’ll never find him on twitter. Being married to a social-networking mommy blogger keeps his nose in the books.Darcy:@LizzyB: Fine. I’ll take this off line. Care to join me?

LizzieB:I am yours: virtually AND corporally.

TheRealJaneAusten:'Night Tweeps.

___________________________________________________Thanks to:Jane Austen and Andrew Davies (screenwriter for the 1995 BBC miniseries)@cribchronicles @maryLUE and @threeandholding: my consultants on all things twittyPainted Maypole for laying down the challenge in the Monday Mission (2 days late, sorry)

You are an absolute GENIUS! So perfectly WONDERFULLY HILARIOUS! Love it! love it! This is too good to pass up, you must pass the word! It's perfection itself! LOL!LOVE LOVE LOVE It! Ok, off to share! Thanks for directing me here! Jenni

I found this from Magpie Musings...I am astounded. This is truly one of the best things I have ever read. I've always loved Pride & Prejudice and have read it a thousand times. This is better than the Bridget Jones interpretation. Just fabulous. I laughed out loud at the Mr. Collins "Read more on Twitlonger". Hysterical. Now, I would love to see you do Wuthering Heights. Or Emma. Yeah, do Emma.

By coincidence, I was just given a copy of "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies." The first line is, "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of a brain must be in want of more brains." It's hysterically funny. Same exact story, but with a subplot of a plague of zombies and Mr. Bennett has trained his daughters in some rigorous Far Eastern zombie killing practices. Of course, you may be PandP'd out right now.

What a great idea JenniferWriter !After the kids have studied the original and discussed it... - this would be a great way to help them grasp some of the meanings and feelings behind the wonderful words of Jane Austen and her era.

I love the language of those days gone by - so fluid, so lyrical and yes, sometimes hard to "get" the first time through her work.

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